• Article Compost and Composting Composting: The Garden's Gift That Keeps on Giving Imagine a process that transforms your kitchen scraps and garden waste into a nutrient-rich, soil-enhancing marvel. Welcome to the world...
• Article City Backyard Composting For over 40 years, City Famer Society has been educating people on the art of composting. So, are there any secrets? In my opinion, the key ingredient to...
• Article Make a Natural Soil Factory with Bokashi Composting Here's how to make a natural, healthy soil factory with bokashi composting and turn valuable food waste into rich compost in just 6 weeks. Watch the video and follow...
• Article The Poop on Manure What is manure? Broadly speaking, manure is organic matter. Animal manure is the feces of animals—primarily of livestock like horses, cows, and chickens. It may be “pure,” but...
• Article DIY Tips for Eco-Friendly Gardens Add some environmentally conscious practices to your gardener’s toolbelt for a more sustainable future. 1. Build your soil. The soil is the foundation of the garden. Use organic...
• Article Double Digging This cultivation techniques takes a lot of sweat and time but it is well worth it. It improves the structure and fecundity of the first two feet of...
• Article Seedy Christmas Gifts Envision a holiday gift that sprouts into a beautiful garden. Seed bombs are the answer, blending utility with a touch of whimsy. These small but mighty spheres are...
• Article 3 Ways to Use Worm Castings In The Garden If you're a gardener, you know that there are a lot of different ways to improve your garden. You can add fertilizer, compost, and soil amendments to make...
• Page Gardening Basics We made this guide to help gardeners understand how naturally occurring phenomena and environmentally friendly gardening techniques can produce healthy, bountiful harvests.Download and optionally print our Gardening Basics...
• Article Ecole Leila North Community School Leila North School is committed to providing students with meaningful, hands-on learning experiences that foster environmental stewardship, food literacy, and a lifelong connection to the natural world. Our...
• Article Turning Lawn into a Lasagna Garden Let's face it, traditional lawns can be a real resource hog. They guzzle water, demand constant trimming and generally return very little for your efforts. Plus, they take...
• Article How to Get Your Potatoes Off to a Great Start If you’re growing potatoes this year, pre-sprouting them allows you to harvest much earlier, which gives you time to plant a fall or winter crop. It also lessens disease...
• Article Food First Foundation - Educating Youth to Reduce Food Insecurity The Food First Foundation is a registered charity that supports food programs, including gardening and composting programs, in schools across the Northwest Territories. The support we provide comes in...
• Article Brooks Composite High School, Grasslands Public Schools Hello, My name is Maureen Lynn and I run a Plant Club at Brooks Composite High School, in Brooks Alberta. This is the Plant Club’s second year, and...
• Article Autumn Leaves: Nature's Annual Gift to Gardeners Autumn is the season of most obvious transition. Our part of the planet starts its annual wobble northward on its axis around the sun, and things cool down...
• Article Mixing Soil from Scratch In many cases pre-packaged soil from the garden centre may serve its purpose when filling containers or raised beds. It is usually manufactured in massive amounts by mixing...
• Article How to Grow Cover Crops Cover cropping is a seasonal process in every well-managed sustainable garden or farm. Planting cover crop seeds is easy.  Useful in weed suppression, they are important in building soil...
• Article Top 10 Eco-Friendly DIY Garden Hacks - Natural Fertilizers and Pest Control We’re so grateful for our gardening community, who shared their top hacks for creating natural fertilizers and pest control solutions in response to our eco-friendly DIY garden hacks...
• Article Top 10 Eco-Friendly DIY Garden Hacks — Reusing Materials Our gardening community is full of creative minds who love to repurpose and reuse. We received hundreds of incredible responses for our DIY garden hacks contest, and we’ve...
• Article How to Grow Fava Beans Fava Beans cover crop seeds produce hardy annual, upright plants. This small-seeded broad bean is a popular nitrogen fixer. The large brittle plants work in easily with front...
• Article How to Grow Zucchini True zucchinis are evenly narrow along their length, and they are long – never round. We include summer pumpkins here as “round zucchinis” because they are so similar in...
• Article What the Heck is N-P-K ? Most fertilizers (and many soil amendments) show this formula somewhere prominently on the package: N-P-K. This shows the ratio of the three most important plant nutrients, Nitrogen, Phosphorus,...
• Page Community Events Plant-A-Packet West Coast Seeds holds planting workshops at community and tradeshow events where we teach you how to grow 12 months of the year. At our events, we...
• Article Using Cover Crops to Restore Land Critics who visit our farm to learn about our style of no-till often point out that our deep mulch system isn’t viable for most regions of the world....
• Article Ciclomanias Ciclomanias is a grassroots organization based in Calgary (Treaty 7), officially incorporated in 2022 but rooted in over a decade of work in Canada and earlier beginnings in...
• Article Getting the Most Out of a Short Growing Season A short growing season doesn’t have to mean a small harvest. With the right strategies, you can extend your growing window, boost yields, and protect your plants from...
• Article Clubroot Clubroot is the thickening and distortion of the roots of Brassicas by the soil fungus Plasmodiophora brassicae. Roots are distended and swollen and may appear to be shaped...
• Article How to Grow Borage In mild climates, borage will bloom continuously nearly all summer, so it’s a wonderful choice for attracting native pollinators – particularly bumblebees. The leaves and flowers are edible...
• Article Simple, Sustainable Gardening Hacks to Get Started From a window-box of herbs to a homestead, growing your own food is an education, a series of trial and error, and a meditation on connecting with nature...
• Article Preparing Garden Beds Most seasoned gardeners understand that early spring is probably the best time to get beds ready for the growing season ahead. The annual crops we grow need plenty...
• Article How to Grow Parsley No organic kitchen garden is complete without parsley. Both curly and flat-leaf parsley are loaded with flavour and productive over a long period in the garden. Parsley is...
• Article How to Grow Meconopsis This is a challenging plant to grow, even for experienced and professional gardeners. With other kinds of poppies, one can just sprinkle the seeds and a few weeks...
• Article Eco-Food Gardening Essentials: Tips to Create a Biodiverse Food Garden Whether you are a gardening newbie with a single pot on your deck, have a sweet back-yard plot, or are a certified organic farmer with acres of growing...
• Article Food 4 Thought   Food 4 Thought is an urban organic garden matching program that started in the Kitsilano neighbourhood in the spring of 2020, matching keen apartment dwelling gardeners with...
• Article Companion Planting These guidelines to companion planting are just suggestions to keep in mind. Each garden is unique and many factors should be considered during the planning stage. These factors...
• Article How to Grow Melons In the home garden, melons can be picked at full maturity, when they have the highest sugar content and best flavour. Their roots are delicate and require high...